Good morning. We’re following Stanford and Cal’s potential move to the ACC and the problems they’ll have to solve before that happens. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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A shooting in a Trabuco Canyon biker bar left three dead and six injured Wednesday evening. Two patients are in critical condition and four are stable. Orange County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the suspect — a retired Ventura police officer targeting his estranged wife, two anonymous sources told the LA Times — on the scene.

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The USC Alumni Association tentatively settled a class-action lawsuit brought on by alumni who claim that their alumni status and ensuing privileges were revoked in an act of negligent misrepresentation and false advertising. The settlement includes a payout of $81,550 in USC Bookstore gift certificates to the suit’s 1,631 class members, averaging $50 each.

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The LA City Council voted Wednesday to approve a contract that would increase spending on police officer pay by $1 billion over the next four years. An officer’s starting salary would increase from $74,000 to more than $86,000 within the first year of the agreement taking effect. The move comes as Mayor Karen Bass seeks to boost raises and bonuses in an effort to better recruit and retain officers.

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Uber raised the minimum age requirement for its California drivers to 25, citing rising costs of commercial auto insurance in the state. A company spokesperson said that a “cottage industry” of personal injury attorneys who specialize in suing rideshare platforms has raised the company’s California insurance cost by more than 65% in two years. The previous age requirement was 19.

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California firefighters are adopting an artificial intelligence program that can identify wildfires from live footage collected by a network of more than 1,000 mountaintop cameras in the state’s most fire-prone regions — a network that’s traditionally monitored by human operators. The pilot program, which began in June, will be rolled out to all of Cal Fire’s command centers in September.

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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